Origin and antiquity of. Gen. 4:20.
CALLED
Tabernacles. Num. 24:5. Job 12:6. Heb. 11:9.
Curtains. Isa. 54:2. Heb. 3:7.
Were spread out. Isa. 40:22.
Fastened by cords to stakes or nails. Isa. 54:2. Jer. 10:20, with Judg. 4:21.
WERE USED BY
Patriarchs. Gen. 13:5. Gen. 25:27. Heb. 11:9.
Israel in the desert. Ex. 33:8. Num. 24:2.
The people of Israel in all their wars. 1 Sam. 4:3, 10. 1 Sam. 29:1. 1 Kin. 16:16.
The Rechabites. Jer. 35:7, 10.
The Arabs. Isa. 13:20.
Shepherds while tending their flocks. SoS. 1:8. Isa. 38:12.
All eastern nations. Judg. 6:5. 1 Sam. 17:4. 2 Kin. 7:7. 1 Chron. 5:10.
Separate, for females of the family. Gen. 24:67.
Separate, for the servants. Gen. 31:33.
WERE PITCHED
With order and regularity. Num. 1:52.
In the neighborhood of wells, &c. Gen. 13:10, 12. Gen. 26:17, 18. 1 Sam. 29:1.
Under trees. Gen. 18:1, 4. Judg. 4:5.
On the tops of houses. 2 Sam. 16:22.
Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to. Deut. 1:33.
Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to. Isa. 38:12.
Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs. Num. 24:5, with SoS. 1:5.
Custom of sitting and standing at the door of. Gen. 18:1. Judg. 4:20.
ILLUSTRATIVE
(Spread out,) of the heavens. Isa. 40:22.
(Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church. Isa. 54:2.